PRONUNCIATION:(MEE-zlee, MEEZ-lee) MEANING:adjective:1. Ridiculously small or bad.2. Infected with measles. ETYMOLOGY:Initially, the word measly was used to describe a pig infected with measles, which is probably derived from Middle Dutch masel (blemish) and its spelling influenced by Middle English mesel (leprous, leprosy). Earliest documented use: 1598.-------------------------------------------------------------m > i EASILY - answer to the question "Can good men be fooled?" Example:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Eisenhower

See? Eisenhower was a nice man but without guns to fight bad men we all would be unclothed and cold and hungry.

You missed a cute little video. (link is in good order) So as I see you favor guns to keep off the bad man ( whoever they are) and to bring to everyone the wonderful permission to disagree with their betters ( whoever they may be)

Then you wern't being weasly but understandably only a weasly Missisippian. I really tried to understand. I don't mind being the dummy here.

ETYMOLOGY:From anemia (a condition in which one has a reduced number of red blood cells or hemoglobin), from Greek an- (without) + haima (blood). Earliest documented use: 1839. The word anemious is entirely different.

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AMEMIC - I can't think of anything pronunciation:. "uh-MEEM-ickorigin: from "a-" (without), and "meme" (a unit of memory, a concept that sticks in your head)

MEANING:adjective:1. Hard, rigid, slow to adapt or respond.2. Relating to or affected with sclerosis, an abnormal hardening of a tissue or part.3. Of or relating to the sclera, the white fibrous outer layer of the eyeball.

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